Traité de la relieure des livres / by Jean-Vincent Capronnier de Gauffecourt ; a bilingual treatise on bookbinding, translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau ; with an introduction by John P. Chalmers ; edited by Elaine B. Smyth.

Traité de la relieure des livres / by Jean-Vincent Capronnier de Gauffecourt ; a bilingual treatise on bookbinding, translated from the French by Claude Benaiteau ; with an introduction by John P. Chalmers ; edited by Elaine B. Smyth.

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Author / Creator:	Gauffecourt, Jean-Vincent Capperonnier de, 1692-1766
Uniform title:	Traité de la relieure des livres. English & French
Imprint:	Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1987.
Description:	130 p. : 1 ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English French
Subject:	Bookbinding -- Early works to 1800. Bookbinding. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/996285

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Other authors / contributors:	Smyth, Elaine B.
Notes:	Gauffecourt's text is transcribed from the only printed ed. of 1763, supplemented by passages unique to the Felbrigg ms. in Cambridge University Library. Both sources are entirely in French. The editorial matter is also in French and English. "Three hundred copies ... printed ... Forty copies are printed on Gampi Torinoko and are specially bound; the balance are printed on Frankfurt White"--Colophon. Bibliography: p. 21-22.

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Call Number:	Z266.G38130 1987
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